We spent yesterday with our personal tour guides, Aunt Mary and Uncle Pat. They have lived here their whole lives and know all the best spots to see, and we saw so many cool things yesterday I don't think I can write about everything! First off, let me start with our arrival in Buffalo. We purchased a GPS before we left and that thing worked flawlessly all the way out here. After 12 hours in the truck on Tuesday, the 3rd, we were in the home stretch-almost to the campground. We got off the exit and I knew Buffalo was to the left, but the British chick on the Tom-Tom that Mark is now in love with told him to go right. So we did. For 15 miles. In the middle of nowhere, GPS chick says "You have reached your destination". There was no campground. The worst part was that we had to turn around, and there was really nowhere to safely turn this 38 ft camper around. We had to drive a little further until we came to an intersecting road that gave us a little more room. We turned off the GPS, who still kept insisiting that she was right and we were wrong in her abnoxious little accent. We spent the next day grocery shopping and setting up, since Aunt Mary and Uncle Pat were up in the mountains at the ranch building fences so they could bring the cows down, or put them up, or move them somewhere. They took us to lunch yesterday at a place called The Pines, its a restaurant in the mountains were people can rent cabins and go on trail rides,fishing, etc. It was beautiful. We were,of course, the only people in there, and despite the flies that kept coming in the front door, the food was really very good, with a big menu. After lunch we went up the mountain. We see deer and antelope and bunnies so often up here, its like seeing cows and horses at home. They are just everywhere! We were on the hunt for moose, we saw the tail end of a mamma and baby one at the end of the day, but we couldn't get too close, especially when there is a baby, Uncle Pat said she would chase us. We went up to the top of a mountain and climbed the fire tower, and you could see for miles and miles. Rangers used to live up there, its a watch tower on top, a little house on the bottom. Outhouse included. We stopped at waterfalls, played in the streams, climbed rocks-it is amazing out here. We went to this huge dam up there that you can walk over-I was a nervous wreck. We all crossed over it but Brandi, she is afraid of heights. I am too, but Carli was insisting and she has no fear, she was leaning over the edge-it makes my hands sweat just thinking about it! The best part of the day though, was Crazy Woman Canyon. It is a canyon that is too amazing to describe, you have to look at the pictures. It is so deep, and the water that runs through it is so pretty. It is all rocky cliffs and caves. Check out my pics. Colleen-I am giving you a shout out here- you have to come out here. I don't think you would come home! Today we are taking the girls swimming and tomorrow we are going back over the mountains to the ranch. I am going to try to find a way to post all my pictures so you guys can see them-there are to many great ones to just pick a few for this!
2 comments:
Tell Mark that I know a longer way to get to Buffalo!
It is an interesting phenomonon that MEN will NEVER stop and ask directions, but as soon as some little chickie with an accent tells him where to go he can't give her up!
Sounds like everyone is having a great time, I've always loved it out there.
Tell Mark I played with him at Stonehenge on Thur, then Wed at Poplar Hill with Caren's dad, and Thursday at Salisbury with Caren's dad and Don. So he's not the only one having fun!!
Hi Diana - Sounds like a beautiful place. I have put it on my list of places to visit. I would love to see more photos. Where are your bird photos? :)
I would be a nervous wreck with my kids walking over something like that too. Was it a narrow walkway? I'm sweating just thinking about it.
What's the weather like there? It has been on the hot side here. Today is going to be in the mid 90s. Yesterday was the same and tomorrow even hotter. I hope whomever is watering your flowers isn't slacking. Let me know if you want me to go check it out.
We had some excitement in the hood on the 4th. The sniper guys house in the presevere was on fire. Around one o'clock in the afternoon 3 big firetrucks come roaring down the parkway with their sirens on 5. We were at home BBQ'ing with my parents and it was at the height of the pool party at the clubhouse. Half the neighborhood was running down the street in their finest swimwear chasing after the firetrucks. Kind of funny to see. The trucks were so loud with their sirens that you would have thought the whole neighborhood was ablaze. I have heard a lot of stories about what kind of fire it was and since no one is really friendly with them, no one has the scoop. We heard it was a grease fire that burnt up the kitchen - to a fire starting from a cigarette in a trash can in the bathroom. Whatever happened, it didn't seem like too much damage and no one was hurt.
Have fun and don't drive over the edge of the mountain.
XO
-C
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